单词 | malayo-papuan |
释义 | > as lemmasMalayo-Papuan 1. Forming adjectives (and related nouns) with the sense ‘of or relating to the Malays and ——’, as Malayo-African, Malayo-Chinese, Malayo-European, Malayo-Indonesian, Malayo-Javanese, Malayo-Malagasy, Malayo-Melanesian, Malayo-Negrito, Malayo-Papuan, Malayo-Portuguese. ΚΠ 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 288/1 Their [sc. the Makasars'] language..belongs to the Malayo-Javanese group. 1879 A. H. Keane in A. R. Wallace Australasia 607 Papûans proper in the centre; Malayo-Papûans in the Indian Archipelago. 1887 A. Featherman Social Hist. Races Mankind II. i. 251 The Malayo-Melanesians are the most important branch of the Melanesian stock. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 285 The Negroid Malayo-Malagasy peoples of Madagascar. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 331 Semi-cultured and rude Malayo-African populations. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 333 The Philippine half-castes may be roughly classed as..Malayo-Indonesians, Malayo-Europeans, and Malayo-Chinese. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Malayo- Malayo Negrito. 1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. i. ii. 35 A Creolized language, in this case a blend called Malayo-Portuguese, which was used by the whites in dealing with slaves. < as lemmas |
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